Re: Mask or no mask
Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2021 9:39 am
E) Generally, I won't be wearing a mask but I will put one on when entering shops or in close contact with strangers. Not so worried about Covid anymore, (double jabbed) but I think it's a good way to reduce my chances of the flu. I have the jab every year but the flu jab is way less effective than the Covid jab (49%), normally I'd feel a bit of a muppet wandering around with a mask, but this new normal gives me a licence to keep wearing the mask. Besides I still have a hundred FFP2 masks that I ordered from Amazon to go through.
Vaccines have varied effects:
a) they can stop you from catching it completely
b) you catch it but don't get seriously sick
c) as b but you are spreading the bug
d) in very rare cases they don't work for you
This isn't just Covid, this is vaccines generally. I remember at University thirty years ago, we were learning how to make vaccines. Part of the process was growing flu virus in chick embryos, now this was a modified virus that died out at human body temperature but the little buggers mutate like crazy, so just to be sure, we were all fully masked and gowned, working with our hands inside cabinets.
Viruses can mutate at a whim, the best plan is to reduce the amount of virus in circulation and thus reduce the chance of a bad mutation. Anyone who tells you we can defeat or control mother nature is talking b*llocks, the best we can do is live with her in the most normal way we can.
Vaccines have varied effects:
a) they can stop you from catching it completely
b) you catch it but don't get seriously sick
c) as b but you are spreading the bug
d) in very rare cases they don't work for you
This isn't just Covid, this is vaccines generally. I remember at University thirty years ago, we were learning how to make vaccines. Part of the process was growing flu virus in chick embryos, now this was a modified virus that died out at human body temperature but the little buggers mutate like crazy, so just to be sure, we were all fully masked and gowned, working with our hands inside cabinets.
Viruses can mutate at a whim, the best plan is to reduce the amount of virus in circulation and thus reduce the chance of a bad mutation. Anyone who tells you we can defeat or control mother nature is talking b*llocks, the best we can do is live with her in the most normal way we can.
